You've given a lot of good info here, but you're missing the most
important part: a sample of the makefile rule you used to invoke the
recursive make.
I'll bet it looks something like:
subdir:
cd subdir; $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS)
That's an incorrect use of MAKEFLAGS. See the GNU make manual for
detailed discussion on passing options to submakes, but the short of it
is you should never put $(MAKEFLAGS) or $(MFLAGS) on a make invocation
line.
Those variables are managed by make itself, and passed to recursive
makes via the _environment_, not the command line.
The MAKEFLAGS variable is documented to not contain a leading "-" except
in special circumstances.
The correct and proper way to invoke a recursive make is to just use the
$(MAKE) variable, no options (obviously adding command line targets is
OK). This will DTRT in all but the most unusual situations.
HTH...
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